The tension in the room escalated further as they stared at each other. Naobito was already in his fighting posture while Makima stretched out her hands as if she was welcoming him to come at her.
A wide grin tucked on both of them as they glanced at their opponent.
Naobito was the first to move.
In a blink of an eye, he vanished from Makima's vision. He returned as soon as he disappeared and delivered a powerful punch toward her face.
Makima leaned her body a bit and tapped his wrist, changing the course of the punch.
She spinned around and gave him a high kick to the head to which he dodged by leaning his head backward.
Naobito then amplified his hands with Curse Energy and sent a flurry of fists toward Makima.
She dodged most of his punches simply by her reflex and blocked the ones that she couldn't.
"How my blood boiling!"
Naobito caught her off guard with the sudden speed up and delivered a strike right at her face. Fortunately, she was able to raise her hands to block his fist.
Suddenly, he opened his palm and grabbed her hand.
Then he used his innate curse technique and touched Makima, trapping her in a frame.
"Hyaa!"
Naobito then delivered a powerful kick toward the frozen Makima.
Bam-!
The frame broke into a million pieces and Makima got kicked right in her abdomen, sending her flying through the door and finally landed on the hallway.
She spitted out some blood and stood up as if nothing had happened, her usual smile was nowhere to be seen, replaced by the cold face that showed no emotion.
"As I thought, hand to hand combat isn't my thing." Her broken ribs healed rapidly as she muttered.
From the office, Naobito stepped out as a grin crept onto his arrogant face.
"Hahaha, now what are you gonna do, you bitch."
Ignoring his taunt, she replicated the scene of Naobito's use of his Curse Energy. The feeling of the energy and the flow of it were replaying countless times in her mind.
Makima began to do the same as Naobito and soon, a blue flame engulfed her hand as she turned her gaze at him.
"So this is how to use it." She muttered lightly. Although she had some information about how to use this Curse Energy already but it was still vague so seeing Naobito fought was a spectacular example.
Naobito was shocked as he didn't think that the whole time Makima was just playing with him without even using the Curse Energy to enhance her body. Even with his sharp senses through numerous battles, it didn't help him realize the fact that she let her Curse Energy on passive. It felt as if he was being looked down on.
Naobito cracked his neck, he could feel a vein pulsating on his head. His arrogance demeanor was nowhere to be seen, replaced with a serious expression.
Swichhh-
Suddenly, Makima found herself being surrounded by a lot of people. Each of them held their weapons in hand, pointing at her.
"They should be the Hei right?" She raised her eyebrow a bit, clearly amused by this situation she found herself in.
"You are already surrounded, surrender or die!" One of the Hei said but it was completely ignored by Makima. Instead, she assessed the people surrounding her.
"Do you hear me or are your ears rotten?!" That Hei was irritated by her reaction. He wanted to charge at her but was held back by Naobito.
"All I am surrounded by is fear and some dogs barking." She said, tilting her head a little. It would be cute if she didn't have blood on her face.
""What!?""
But before any of them could make a move, they were frozen in place and couldn't bulge.
"Suicide." Makima's voice escaped her soft lips and resounded in anyone there, giving them a chill. Her mesmerizing voice enticed all the men that were present.
Her gaze glossed over and they failed to look into her eyes, the eyes of the Devil. She had given the order and that order shall be executed. Their body moved on their own and they placed their weapons on their neck.
–Splash–
–Splash–
In a blink of an eye, they all thrusted their weapon into their neck.
They suicided.
Their bodies made a thud sound as everyone of them fell on the floor. The blood from their bodies coloring the hallway in red. It was a massacre.
The only one that wasn't affected by her is Naobito Zenin, the clan head.
She had deliberately excluded him from her mind control ability.
Naobito's face now contorted and twisted in rage and fear. He hadn't heard about the Curse Technique that could control the mind at this level. All of the elites of the clan were slaughtered by one word.
"Now, all the insects are gone, let's continue our fight." Makima spoke calmly and picked up a bloody katana nearby, a weapon from one of the Hei.
Naobito rushed at her with a powerful strike but that didn't bypass her eyes. She fenced off the attack by simply blocking with the sword. But this time, she didn't get sent flying because she had amplified the Curse Energy around herself and the sword.
"Nowadays, younglings always talk about 60fps this, high resolution that. But do you know how many frames per second are used in the movie?"
He threw an uppercut with his other hand. Makima saw through this and stomped his abdomen to retreat.
"24."
"My technique is Projection Sorcery. It allows me to set up a preprogramming movement in 24 frames to hop in space faster than anyone could see." He revealed his technique to Makima.
"Don't you think revealing this technique could help me?" The corner of Makima's lips rose, albeit a little.
"Let's see about that." Naobito smirked. He just made a binding vow with himself to make his technique more powerful by revealing the details of his technique. Of course, he didn't reveal all of it.
Suddenly, Naobito reappeared beside Makima and used his hand to cut her throat.
Makima glanced at him and deflected his arm but then he disappeared once again.
"Hey hey, what are you looking at?!" Naobito's voice echoed behind her. She already noticed him there but her body couldn't keep up with it.
He is just too damn fast.
Makima's eyes widened in surprise as her expression contorted in frustration. Her body was frozen in 1 second because she couldn't move according to the 24 fps rule.
Naobito empowered his hand and cut through her throat in a swift movement, nearly cutting off her head.
Seeing Makima falling to the floor and bleeding to the point that no one would be able to survive it, he walked away, not even bothering to give her a glance.
"What a damn mess." He muttered.
But that was his mistake.
Makima was a Devil, not human and what she did best was manipulate.
As soon as Naobito thought that he had won against her, she silently stood up and pointed her finger at him. A perpetual ever stoic smile formed on her face. From her supple lips escaped a word.
"Bang."
Naobito's eyes widened as his instinct kicked in as he coated his whole body with Curse Energy and used the Projection Sorcery to dodge to the side as fast as he could.
But that was not enough.
An invisible force struck him and a portion of his ribs was gone.
Naobito panted heavily as he did his best to stop the bleeding. He looked at the one who caused this, aka Makima, in surprise.
'What? Reverse curse technique? No that is not possible as she had only learned how to use the Curse Energy earlier so that isn't the case.' Naobito's mind raced as he thought of countless variables why she was not dead yet.
"Let's hope Veilhem isn't gonna scold me later." Makima muttered lightly and slowly approached him.
She came closer to Naobito with indifferent golden eyes. She spoke. "Make a contract with me or you die."
Seeing his silence, she placed her hand on his head but before she could do that, Naobito raised his hands and gave off a smile. "Hahahahaha, sure I don't mind."
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"You are indeed strong, probably in the Special Grade class. I notice that even though you didn't even go all out with your mind control technique earlier and they all dropped dead. And they are the elites of the clan for fuck shake." Naobito explained.
"And the fact that I can't even see when you initiate that Curse Technique means you can either control the mind of everyone with your words or that isn't a Curse Technique at all."
"If it is the former, then you must have a restrain after that but that wasn't the case because you continuously use that and also you don't have the signature symbol on your mouth so the latter must be the correct answer."
"Wow, you can guess that much with just a little information." Makima clapped her hands in impressed.
"I wouldn't be a clan head if I cannot do this much."
"So about the contract, you can do whatever you want with the condition that you don't manipulate me and the elders here." Naobito walked back to his office with a hand to cover his wound. It was a silent agreement to her that she could do her thing to others.
Watching the old man silhouette became smaller in her vision, she didn't pay him any mind more than what was needed.
Makima began to walk toward the Training Compound of the Zenin clan, she could feel Veilhem faintly through the contract.
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A/N: I will off like 1 week, good luck mate.